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Dr. T. P. Wilkinson
Psycho-Cartoon Warfare: Putin as Hitler
23 Apr 2014
by Dr. T P Wilkinson The real Hitler was rather popular in upper class western circles, at least until the start of World War Two. The media’s use of “Hitler” as a pejorative has little to do with the actual politics of the world’s most famous fascist. The Hitlerization of Putin turns reality on…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: Democracy is Dead
23 Apr 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley A new study confirms the obvious: the will of the people carries no weight in the United States. Within the nation’s borders democracy is everywhere proclaimed but nowhere to be found. These truths we hold to be self-evident: “ordinary citizens…
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
6 Reasons Why Obama's Clemency Program For Drug Offenders Doesn't Change Mass Incarceration One Bit
23 Apr 2014
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The White House is reportedly considering using clemency to release a few hundred or couple thousand federal prisoners. Better than nothing, but it's in no sense a start at dismantling the prison state. Clemency changes no laws or institutions or police,…
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25 Apr 2014
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Sikivu Hutchinson
The Sterling Shuffle: Unpacking White Jewish Racism
30 Apr 2014
by Sikivu Hutchinson For the moment, a Jewish sports franchise owner is the most prominent racist in the United States. Donald Sterling’s conduct serves are a reminder that “the illusion of lockstep black-Jewish solidarity on liberal political coalition-building has long masked the reality of white…
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo
Obama’s “No Tolerance” for Freedom of Speech Policy (or Lament for Sunshine Week)
30 Apr 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo President Obama runs the most secrecy-obsessed administration in U.S. history. “The president talks the talk, whistleblowers walk the plank—while the authors, administrators and implementers of torture and felonious activities walk—under the…
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka
Corporate Oligarchy or People’s Democracy: Countering the Elite Agenda
30 Apr 2014
by BAR editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka Even the tepid and formulaic kind of democracy previously permitted in the United States is too constraining for the Lords of Capital. “In its arrogance, the oligarchy is exposing the class character of the state and providing left forces a potent weapon for…
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
Freedom Rider: The Lessons of Cliven Bundy and Donald Sterling
30 Apr 2014
by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Two arch racists were are on national display this week, reminding folks that a post-racial America is a myth. Cliven Bundy did a further service by showing federal reluctance to confront White Terror, while Donald Sterling’s case outed the Los…
Jeffrey B. Perry
Happy 131st Birthday Hubert Harrison, Giant of Black History
29 Apr 2014
by Jeffrey B. Perry More race conscious than A. Philip Randolph and more class conscious than Marcus Garvey, Hubert H. Harrison’s “ideas on the centrality of the struggle against white supremacy anticipated the profound transformative power of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggles of the…
by BAR contributor Danny Haiphong
Respectability Politics And The Left Flank of US imperialism
30 Apr 2014
by Danny Haiphong In an age of savage austerity, the question is not, What will the Right do next? – but rather, How much more abuse will Black and working people tolerate? Much of what passes for a Left in the U.S. wants nothing more than acceptance by the rulers. “Solid, organized criticism and…